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RELIGIONS OF THE SILK ROAD

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Premodern Patterns of Globalization Second Edition

R I C H A R D F O LT Z

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RELIGIONS OF THE SILK ROAD

RELIGIONS OF THE SILK ROAD

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To Manya, Shahrzad, Persia, and Bijan with love

The Silk Road

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Preface

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One

The Silk Road and Its Travelers

Two

Religion and Trade in Ancient Eurasia

Three Buddhism and the Silk Road Four

1 23 37

A Refuge of Heretics: Nestorians and Manichaeans on the Silk Road

59

Five

The Islamization of the Silk Road

85

Six

Ecumenical Mischief

105

Seven

A Melting Pot No More

127

Epilogue: The Religion of the Market

137

Notes